Ladies' Home Journal:
"jazz originally was the accompaniment of the voodoo dancer, stimulating the
half-crazed barbarian to the vilest deeds." jazz led to "blatant disregard of
even the elementary rules of civilization," "whorehouse music," "music in the
nude."

1904-1905, cheap movie
theaters - nickelodeons - "nickel madness".

1907, 200 nickelodeons
in Manhattan alone - five per block in Harlem. Chicago two cents a show -

"the poor man's
amusement" or the "workingman's theater".

"leisure revolution" -
Saturday afternoons off

"Eight hours for work,
eight hours for rest, and eight hours for what we will."

"On one occasion a
health officer didn't think his county needed contraception. When he discovered
that the Negroes were accounting for 85% of the births, he quickly changed his
mind."

1942 Planned Parenthood;

1938 poll Ladies Home
Journal
79% of American women approved of contraceptive practice.

Child-spacing - birth
control not just female autonomy, but also family stability.

WWII:

Rosie the Riveter

"I let a sailor pick me
up and go all the way… mainly because I had a feeling of high adventure and
because I wanted to please a member of the armed forces."

"a real sex paradise.
The plant and town were just full of working girls who were on the make."

"khaki-wackies," victory
girls, and good-time Charlottes.

"The old time prostitute
is sinking into second place. The new type is the young girl in her late teens
and early twenties… determined to have one fling or better."

1942 Minneapolis
Tribune:
"WACs and WAVES and women welders… where is it all going to end?… Is it hard to
foresee, after the boys come marching home and they marry these emancipated
young women, who is going to tend the babies in the next generation?"Marriage counselors &
psychologists: "Let him know you are tired of living alone, that you want him
now to take charge."

returning men wanted
women to display "tenderness, admiration, or at least submissiveness."

June-Sept 1945, one out
of every four women dropped from factory jobs.

post-WWII prosperity;

1945 poll: 57% of women
& 63% of men said that married women whose husbands earned enough to
support family should not be allowed to hold jobs even if they wanted to work.

Freudian psychology -
women ought to be happy serving family. New York psychiatrist 1950s, "You
all know women who lack warmth and tenderness.They do not want to be homemakers or mothers, but judges of
the Supreme Court.Such a woman
could suffer total sexual frigidity or homosexuality by separating herself from
all that is considered womanly such as cooking and making a home."

dating do's and don't:
"Do point out Johnny's best features.Say something like: ‘You have hands like a doctor's, strong and
efficient'" and "Don't ever let your irritation show on your face. When you're
angry, sit still, be quiet, smile if you possibly can, and start [by saying]
‘I'm sorry.'"

40% of women at Barnard admitted
sometimes "playing dumb" to catch a man.

1959 Barbie doll,

1953 Hugh Hefner Playboy:

"Playboy philosophy": If you are
a man between 18 and 80, Playboy is meant for you… [as] a pleasure-primer style to
the masculine taste… We enjoy mixing up cocktails… putting a little mood music
on the phonograph and inviting in a female acquaintance for a quiet discussion
of Picasso, Nietzsche, jazz, sex…."

nude photographs of
Marilyn Monroe.

1955 Playmates the "girl
next door" - "It's natural to think of the pulchritudinous Playmates as
existing in a world apart.Actually, potential Playmates are all around you: the new secretary at
your office, the doe-eyed beauty who sat opposite you at lunch yesterday, the
girl who sells your shirts and ties in your favorite store.We found Miss July in our own circulation
department, processing subscriptions…."

1946 US birthrates began
to skyrocket.

1957 record 4.3 million
babies born -

baby boom - women marrying
younger, having kids sooner (first child earlier in life than grandmothers did)
- "ideal" number of kids rose from two to four.

by 1960, most US couples
incorporated family planning into married life.

wives age 18-44, 81% used
some form of birth control, another 7% expected to use it.

blacks, Catholics, women
without high school diplomas less likely to use contraception.

1957 Supreme Court Roth case (trial of
bookdealer accused of selling pornography): "sex and obscenity are not
synonymous."Said Michigan law would
"reduce the adult population to reading only what is fit for children."

1966 Fanny Hill case Justice Brennan,
"A book cannot be proscribed unless it is found to be utterly without redeeming
social value."